Presentation on focusing on user needs, better procurement and G-cloud, a series of frameworks to buy cloud-based services. Presented by Mark Pinheiro, Head of Procurement, Government Digital Service (GDS)
30. 18
GDS
Digital Service Framework
Easy access to suppliers with the right
capabilities who work in an agile way
Providing a large pool of quality suppliers
Providing a flexible and speedy route to
meet customers’ needs
Regularly refreshed (every 6-9 months)
Mark Pinheiro
It’s a framework that allows Government and the wider public sector to buy commodity Cloud services
from lots of different providers from the UK, the EU and across the world.
It’s about creating a vibrant, dynamic marketplace for suppliers, in particular SMEs, to offer a wide range of services in a transparent, commoditised way. It’s about making a break with the bad old days of Government outsourcing its IT strategy to big corporations that over charged, under-delivered and locked buyers into long term contracts
But there is a much bigger ambition than just being yet another method of procurement - it’s about flexibility, lower cost, improving speed of delivery
What’s our vision for G-Cloud?
The G-Cloud framework allows you to choose and purchase services
The G-Cloud framework allows you to choose and purchase services
Today
18 months approx.
Progress on ensuring 25% of central departmental new ICT spending will be transitioned to public cloud computing services by December 2015
We want to continue to improve from what’s been built and make it even better. Over the next few months, G-Cloud is going to go through a transformation process to bring it up to date with the other transactional services that we’re working on.
We want to continue to improve from what’s been built and make it even better. Over the next few months, G-Cloud is going to go through a transformation process to bring it up to date with the other transactional services that we’re working on.
We want to continue to improve from what’s been built and make it even better. Over the next few months, G-Cloud is going to go through a transformation process to bring it up to date with the other transactional services that we’re working on.